phaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前I'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonmessage-squaremessage-square253fedilinkarrow-up12.28K
arrow-up12.28Kmessage-squareI'd rather have a "Would you like to hide all Sports related Content?" button than a "Would you like to hide all NSFW content?" buttonphaedrux_pharo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square253fedilink
minus-squarebaatliwala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up40·1 年前Where is the “hide all americans” button?
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·1 年前Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less. Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
minus-squarePyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 年前The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
minus-squarenuez_jr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 年前It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
minus-squarewheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 年前This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
Where is the “hide all americans” button?
Especially US politics. I couldn’t care less.
Or as some Americans say, “I could care less”
For any passing Americans who are thinking “what’s the difference?”, please take 3 minutes to find out.
The purpose of language is to communicate, if it is understood by the target audience it is correct.
It’d take effort to care any less than I currently do. And I don’t care enough to reduce my interest any further.
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Because language evolves and isn’t prescriptivist. Especially in the US where a Founding Father wrote a dictionary to explicitly reject strict prescriptivism(it was still prescriptivist in ways but better than contemporaries).
This is not an example of evolution, this is just a widespread error.
The target understands it, therefore it is correct language
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the argument is about america??
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Yeah. It is about why Americans say it- so it is relevant to American history?
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